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Happily, it so happens every now and then that a personal obsession dovetails with a media moment. See also: Martha Gellhorn. This brilliant novelist, fearless war correspondent, and all-around generous human has been one of my Favorite Kick-A** Women Heroes of All Time since I first found out about her -- through her letters to my grandmother, no less. Gellhorn also happened to be, for a time, the wife of some guy named Ernest Hemingway. A movie featuring Nicole Kidman as Gellhorn just debuted on HBO, reminding us all about this amazing, gutsy woman.

As I watched the movie, I wondered if there were any possible way I could be an eensy bit more like Martha Gellhorn. Leggy, blonde, and effortlessly glamorous? I effortlessly choose to put on pajama pants around 5:00 pm every day, if that counts. Courageous and restless? Eh, not really, though I do restlessly peruse the internet, sometimes for many hours at a time. Prone to torrid affairs with wild men? Gosh, no! A world-traveler? Well, maybe not so far, but hey, life is long, and Colleen Kinder has conveniently provided a cheatsheet over at National Geographic: Martha Gellhorn's Top 5 Getaways.

Here are the 5 places, from Cuba to Wales, where this intrepid traveler went when she wanted to get away from it all. We may not all be recovering from, say, reporting on D-Day, or recuperating after divorcing a Nobel laureate, but everyone needs to recharge sometimes. And these off-the-beaten-path travel destinations -- snorkeling in Kenya, anyone? -- seem like they would be just the place to get reacquainted with that eminent personage, yourself.

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